cleave

See also: Cleave

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *glewbʰ-#CLEAVE

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#CLEAVE cleven, from the Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from Old English#CLEAVE strong verb clēofan (“to split, to separate”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#CLEAVE *kleuban, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#CLEAVE *kleubaną, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#CLEAVE *glewbʰ- (“to cut, to slice”).

Doublet of cliveCategory:English doublets#CLEAVE. Cognate with Dutch klieven, dialectal German klieben, Swedish klyva, Norwegian Nynorsk kløyva; also Ancient Greek γλύφω (glúphō, “carve”).

Verb

cleave (third-person singular simple present cleaves, present participle cleaving, simple past cleft or clove or (UK) cleaved or (archaic) clave, past participle cleft or clove or (UK) cleaved or (archaic) clave or cloven)Category:English lemmas#CLEAVECategory:English verbs#CLEAVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CLEAVECategory:Pages with entries#CLEAVECategory:Pages with 1 entry#CLEAVE

  1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CLEAVE) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
    Synonym: rive
  2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CLEAVE, mineralogyCategory:en:Mineralogy#CLEAVE) To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
  3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CLEAVE) To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
    The truck clove a path through the ice.Category:English terms with usage examples#CLEAVE
  4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CLEAVE) (chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
  5. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CLEAVE) To split.
  6. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CLEAVE, mineralogyCategory:en:Mineralogy#CLEAVE) Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
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Noun

cleave (plural cleaves)Category:English lemmas#CLEAVECategory:English nouns#CLEAVECategory:English countable nouns#CLEAVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CLEAVECategory:Pages with entries#CLEAVECategory:Pages with 1 entry#CLEAVE

  1. (technologyCategory:en:Technology#CLEAVE) Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
  2. A cut (slash) or a cut location, either naturally or artificially.
    • 1876-1879, Picturesque Europe: With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Most Eminent Artists‎, Cassell, Petter, Galpin, page 213:
      There are very striking scenes on some of the lesser streams at this portion of their course. The deep gorge of the Lyd is famous. In the "cleaves," or cleft rocky valleys of Lustleigh and of the Tavy, many a long summer day may be spent with delight; and the Erme, which descends by Ivy Bridge, is not less worthy of a pilgrimage. As the rivers leave the moorland they are crossed by venerable and picturesque bridges which, like that of Harford in our illustration, sometimes afford an admirable framework for the distant landscape.
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    • 1905, William Crossing, Gems in a Granite Setting; Beauties of the Lone Land of Dartmoor‎, Plymouth Western Morning News Company, page 48:
      The valley by which the Taw leaves the Moor forms one of the cleaves that add so greatly to the attractions of the place, and this bears the same name as the parish.
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    • 1909, John Trevena, Heather‎, Moffat, Yard and Company, page 447:
      Early the next morning, when there was a tender pink light upon all the moor, and the gentle wind was filled with the purest odours found upon earth, the smell of firs and peat and dewy heather, and the first sunbeams seemed to be creeping down the side of the cleave to drink of the river, poor ill-used John Petherick was evicted at last from Wheal Dream and went into the immortality which he could not think about.
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Etymology 2

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gleybʰ-#CLEAVE

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#CLEAVE cleven, a conflation of two verbs: Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from Old English#CLEAVE clifian (from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#CLEAVE *klibēn, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#CLEAVE *klibāną) and Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from Old English#CLEAVE clīfan (from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#CLEAVE *klīban, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#CLEAVECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#CLEAVE *klībaną), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#CLEAVE *gleybʰ- (“to stick”). Cognate with Dutch kleven, German kleben (“to stick”).

Verb

cleave (third-person singular simple present cleaves, present participle cleaving, simple past and past participle cleaved)Category:English lemmas#CLEAVECategory:English verbs#CLEAVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CLEAVECategory:Pages with entries#CLEAVECategory:Pages with 1 entry#CLEAVE

  1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CLEAVE, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#CLEAVE) Followed by to or unto: to adhere, cling, or stick fast to something.
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